Hey, friends,
welcome back to the channel.
If you're knew here
my name is Vibhor. I am an Executive
Agile and Leadership Coach based in
Toronto, Canada.
And in this video,
I will tell you how that dude who just
got hired six months ago is already being
considered for a promotion.
And you who have given years of hard
work to the company,
are getting ignored by your boss
and everyone else.
Now, this particular
advice works for everyone,
not just for Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters.
There are a few key words or phrases that
I want you to take note of,
so keep a pen and paper handy.
Okay, so your career as a rising star
depends upon you switching to jobs that
involve greater responsibility,
in shorter periods of time.
It doesn't matter if you are an MBA
from an Ivy League,
Harvard, Stanford,
Yale or the famous
IIMs in India,
believe me,
I have worked with them all.
If what you are doing is simply a
good job,
Then you are not doing enough good to
get promoted.
Now, don't get me wrong.
Of course you need to do a good job
to stay where you are.
But if you want to get ahead in your
career, you need your boss,
your boss's boss and everyone else up
the chain think that you are a,
Low Risk Higher
Now, what do I mean by that?
This phrase Low Risk Hire
is the secret
behind getting promoted?
Let me explain.
doing a good job although necessary
does not reflect your competence
in the next job you want.
A Low Risk Higher
is one who demonstrates the skills
and responsibilities required in the
next job or assignment much before
getting considered for a promotion.
But here's the thing.
When you are lower on the corporate ladder,
you are often not trusted
to make independent decisions
or do things that could demonstrate
your readiness to transition from your
role of a doer to that of a decider
or a manager of doers.
And this is where most people get stuck.
I bet most of you,
if not all,
think that, if you are not given a
chance to make decisions,
then how on earth are you supposed to
get the experience required
to climb up the ladder.
Today, I will get you unstuck.
Are you ready?
You practice decision making skills by
offering well thought out recommendations
to your boss, your boss's boss,
and everyone else.
Using the GRAVITAS hack,
I shared with you in the last video,
link is in the description,
If you want to check it out, s
when it's time for you
to share your thoughts,
you say, "Here's what I recommend."
In fact, you use the phrase.
"Here's what I recommendnce
at least once
in every meeting that you attend with
the people who hold authority.
Now this brings up another question.
What exactly do you recommend?
What's the content of your recommendation?
Regardless of where you are on Earth,
people in authority,
Director level or up,
mostly have two concerns with the
things you recommend.
First is whether you have
done enough research about
the stuff that you are recommending.
Can you provide details when asked?
A well prepared response
to this concern is a must for
you to sustain the position you already
have, but it will only get you a friendly
pat on your shoulder.
It's not enough to get promoted.
And here's why.
A big part of being a manager,
a decider or someone who holds authority is
the ability to make HOLISTIC DECISIONS.
Decisions that increase
awareness of the IMPACT
generated by that decision
on the whole company.
Now, at the most basic level,
decisions made by people can impact
the company in two ways.
First is a Cross Functional Impact.
How does what you are proposing
at IT or Engineering impacts
sales, for example,
or marketing and customer service,
for that matter?
If you could anticipate
this concern in advance
with a well thought out response,
then you not only will impress your boss
but your boss's boss's well.
Because guess what?
This is the area of their responsibility.
This is what they worry about.
Second is Time Delayed Impact.
This is what C level Executives
worry about.
If today we implement w
what you're recommending,
do we create a headache
for ourselves in 6 months or a year later?
C Level executives don't want to deal
with any adverse consequences
resulting from
implementing your recommendation in
the years to come.
They hate this idea when a win for your
little pet project in the present creates
a headache for them in the future.
So before you voice your
recommendation or
present your proposal,
take a few minutes to think
about your proposal's ramifications
on other departments and
your company as a whole
in the future.
Ask yourself these questions.
How will your proposal
impact the customers,
the sales team,
its marketing efforts and
the next fiscal year?
Write down a rough list
of these concerns,
then address them before
you present your proposal
to the people who matter.
Now, this may require
you to adjust your proposal
slightly to prevent major problems for
others or change
how you would explain or
articulate the proposition
to demonstrate that
you at least considered the impact on
other departments.
When you do this regularly,
you will find that people senior to
you are willing to support your candidacy
for promotion.
When you demonstrate good cross functional
and short vs long term foresight,
others feel confident that there are
little chances of them cleaning up
your messes in the future.
This makes you,
A, LOW RISK HIRE
And that's exactly what you want to
be perceived as
And this, my friend,
is the key to the superstar career path.
Your work isn't donee
when you finished the
last slide of your deck.
It isn't done when the last line of
the code is written.
Nor is it done when the last cell of
your spreadsheet is filled.
Your work is done after you spend a
few minutes thinking about
how, what you have just finished,
impact everyone else.
Only after you have made
any revisions based
on this extra level of thinking is
your work done.
So there you have it.
This is the advice that saved me from
getting lost, in the rabbit hole of
thinking that without networking or
proper connections,
it's impossible to move up the corporate
ladder. And I hope it helps you as well.
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I'll see you in the next video